Category Analyst – EU

Overview

In this Category Analyst role within Europe Marketing, you support the Category Manager to drive Skin & Fragrance performance through analytics, forecasting, and cross-functional coordination. You will build category plans, monitor performance, and identify growth opportunities across markets. The role emphasizes end-to-end launch support, demand planning, and portfolio optimization to boost sales and market share. You’ll work closely with marketing, commercial, and supply teams in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. This position offers exposure to a global, growth-driven brand committed to empowering customers and fostering a diverse, dynamic workplace.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work model
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• birthday day off
• inclusive parental leave
• pension and life assurance
• Medicash and Employee Assist Programs

Responsibilities

• Support execution of category strategy to drive sales, market share, and portfolio growth
• Assist in building category plans, innovation support, and portfolio updates
• Own category performance tracking and reporting with insights on sales and product productivity
• Analyze portfolio performance to highlight underperforming and high-potential SKUs and support optimization
• Track NPD performance, including launch metrics and post-launch evaluation
• Support end-to-end launch management and cross-market execution
• Coordinate forecasting activities, including NPD volumes and demand planning inputs
• Manage operational product elements (sampling, PPUs coordination) for forecasting and deployment
• Forecast management for TOAs and regional adaptation/development
• Collaborate with supply chain to ensure availability and minimize stock risk
• Conduct competitor and market analysis to identify growth opportunities
• Support pricing, positioning, and lifecycle management tracking
• Ensure accuracy and quality of category reporting with NPD tracking and post-launch analysis

Key requirements

• Some experience in Marketing, ideally beauty, fashion, luxury or retail
• Strong analytical and commercial experience, with background in product/category/brand
• Data-led but creatively aware, balancing performance and brand
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and cross-functional relationship-building
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize ruthlessly, and influence up in an agile setting
• Flexible, professional, eager to learn and embrace challenge
• Exceptional organizational and prioritizing skills with attention to detail and results orientation

• collaboration
• adaptability
• effective communication
• category analytics
• forecasting
• NPD tracking

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